English: The World Language

ENGLISH THE WORLD LANGUAGE Non-native speakers outnumber native speakers of English by more than two to one. Speakers of English as a percentage of world population* Non-native Native .. of all websites are written in English 55% 45% Native (approx. 430 million) India has over Non-native (approx 950 million) Non-speakers (approx 5.1 billion) 125,000,000 1 in 5 of the world's population speak English as either a native, second or foreign language. ESL speakers 66 English belongs to everyone ,99 or to no oпe "Figures based on 2006 estimates | Sources: Saville-Troike, Muriel. Introducing Second Language Acquisition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2006 http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001870/187016e.pdf | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language | Wardhaugh, Ronald. Languages in Competition: Dominance, Diversity, and Decline. Oxford, UK: B. Blackwell, 1987. This infographic OPaul Raine 2012. %9' 78.8% ENGLISH THE WORLD LANGUAGE Non-native speakers outnumber native speakers of English by more than two to one. Speakers of English as a percentage of world population* Non-native Native .. of all websites are written in English 55% 45% Native (approx. 430 million) India has over Non-native (approx 950 million) Non-speakers (approx 5.1 billion) 125,000,000 1 in 5 of the world's population speak English as either a native, second or foreign language. ESL speakers 66 English belongs to everyone ,99 or to no oпe "Figures based on 2006 estimates | Sources: Saville-Troike, Muriel. Introducing Second Language Acquisition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2006 http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001870/187016e.pdf | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language | Wardhaugh, Ronald. Languages in Competition: Dominance, Diversity, and Decline. Oxford, UK: B. Blackwell, 1987. This infographic OPaul Raine 2012. %9' 78.8% ENGLISH THE WORLD LANGUAGE Non-native speakers outnumber native speakers of English by more than two to one. Speakers of English as a percentage of world population* Non-native Native .. of all websites are written in English 55% 45% Native (approx. 430 million) India has over Non-native (approx 950 million) Non-speakers (approx 5.1 billion) 125,000,000 1 in 5 of the world's population speak English as either a native, second or foreign language. ESL speakers 66 English belongs to everyone ,99 or to no oпe "Figures based on 2006 estimates | Sources: Saville-Troike, Muriel. Introducing Second Language Acquisition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2006 http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001870/187016e.pdf | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language | Wardhaugh, Ronald. Languages in Competition: Dominance, Diversity, and Decline. Oxford, UK: B. Blackwell, 1987. This infographic OPaul Raine 2012. %9' 78.8% ENGLISH THE WORLD LANGUAGE Non-native speakers outnumber native speakers of English by more than two to one. Speakers of English as a percentage of world population* Non-native Native .. of all websites are written in English 55% 45% Native (approx. 430 million) India has over Non-native (approx 950 million) Non-speakers (approx 5.1 billion) 125,000,000 1 in 5 of the world's population speak English as either a native, second or foreign language. ESL speakers 66 English belongs to everyone ,99 or to no oпe "Figures based on 2006 estimates | Sources: Saville-Troike, Muriel. Introducing Second Language Acquisition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2006 http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001870/187016e.pdf | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language | Wardhaugh, Ronald. Languages in Competition: Dominance, Diversity, and Decline. Oxford, UK: B. Blackwell, 1987. This infographic OPaul Raine 2012. %9' 78.8% ENGLISH THE WORLD LANGUAGE Non-native speakers outnumber native speakers of English by more than two to one. Speakers of English as a percentage of world population* Non-native Native .. of all websites are written in English 55% 45% Native (approx. 430 million) India has over Non-native (approx 950 million) Non-speakers (approx 5.1 billion) 125,000,000 1 in 5 of the world's population speak English as either a native, second or foreign language. ESL speakers 66 English belongs to everyone ,99 or to no oпe "Figures based on 2006 estimates | Sources: Saville-Troike, Muriel. Introducing Second Language Acquisition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2006 http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001870/187016e.pdf | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language | Wardhaugh, Ronald. Languages in Competition: Dominance, Diversity, and Decline. Oxford, UK: B. Blackwell, 1987. This infographic OPaul Raine 2012. %9' 78.8%